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| Week | Date | Tentative Topics | Instructor | Assignments & Quiz
announcements |
Required Readings and Videos |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 2/9 | Course Introduction :
Introduction to cryptography and cyber security |
DM & MM |
-- |
|
None |
| 3/9 | Overview on Cryptography |
DM | -- | |||
| 4/9 | Introduction to Number Theory |
DM | -- | |||
| Week 2 | 9/9 | Security mindset Security threats, vulnerability, risk and security controls |
MM |
-- | |
|
| 10/9 | Threat modelling and Security
architectures |
MM |
-- | |||
| 11/9 | Graded
tutorial |
-- | ||||
| Week 3 | 16/9 | Classical Cryptosystems | DM |
-- |
|
None |
| 17/9 | Classical Cryptanalysis and Shannon's Theory | DM |
-- | |||
| 18/9 | Basics of Computer Network
security How internet works, protocols Tools of the trade: ping, nmap, traceroute, wireshark, tcpdump |
MM |
-- | |||
| Week 4 | 23/9 | Attacks on Protocols Blind spoofing, Syn flooding and other attacks |
MM |
-- |
||
| 24/9 | Attacks and defenses on DNS and
BGP protocols |
MM |
-- | |||
| 25/9 | Shannon's Theory and perfect
cipher |
DM |
-- | |||
| 26/9 |
Graded tutorial | |||||
| Week 5 | 30/9 | Smurf attack, Reflection attack,
IPSEC |
MM |
-- | ||
| 1/10 | Symmetric Key Ciphers, DES |
DM |
-- | |||
| 2/10 | Advanced Encryption Standard |
DM |
-- | |||
| Week 6 | 7/10 | VPNs and Firewalls – IDS /IPS
, Iptables (Linux) |
MM |
-- |
|
|
| 8/10 | Advanced Encryption Standard | DM |
-- | |||
| 9/10 | Linear Cryptanalysis | DM |
-- | |||
| Week 7 | 14/10 | Differential Cryptanalysis | DM |
-- | ||
| 15/10 | Advanced Cryptanalysis | DM |
-- | |||
| 16/10 | System security: Memory integrity attacks |
MM | -- | |||
| Week 8 | 21/10 | Modes of Block Ciphers, Stream Ciphers | DM |
-- | ||
| 22/10 | Cryptographic Hash Functions | DM |
-- | |||
| 23/10 | - Holiday - |
-- | ||||
| Week 9 | 28/10 | - Holiday - | -- | |||
| 29/10 | - Holiday - |
-- | ||||
| 30/10 | - Holiday - | -- | ||||
| Week 10 |
4/11 | Attacks on Hash Functions |
DM |
-- | ||
| 5/11 | Message Authentication Codes | DM |
-- | |||
| 6/11 | TBA |
DM/MM |
-- | |||
| Week 11 |
11/11 | More Number Theory |
DM |
-- | ||
| 12/10 | RSA |
DM |
-- | |||
| 13/11 | Authentication |
MM |
-- | |||
| Week 12 |
18/11 | RSA-Security |
DM |
-- | ||
| 19/11 | Primality | DM |
-- | |||
| 20/11 | Discrete Log |
DM |
-- | |||
| Week 13 |
25/11 | ElGamal Cryptosystem |
DM |
-- | ||
| 26/11 | Secret Sharing |
DM |
-- | |||
| 27/11 | - END of CLASS - | -- |